Should there be a Mosque at Ground Zero?

For more, visit www.KeepAmericaSafe.com.

Better late than never - is America about to follow Japan

On Friday the NP issued this editorial that suggests with Money Supply falling into negative growth the US is about to fall into the worst case of expansive Fiscal Policy and restrictive Monetary Policy.

Further to this, I found this debate (March 23, 2010) at Grants Interest Rate Letter between eponymous and well known strategist James Grant (of Grants Interest Rate Letter) and David Rosenberg, Chief Strategist  - Gluskin Scheff (but formerly, Chief Economist/Strategist at Merrill Lynch - before it blew itself up).

Courtesy:  Investors Business Daily

Does Air Canada/Boarder Security do their job?

Here is example of Air Canada staff letting 3 veil-clad women on to plane.  However this is the final "boarding phase" - presumably the Security Staff already asked for a visual identification?



Article here.

First Climategate, then Glaciergate - and now Amazongate!

Only last week was the most odious whitewash of the infamous Climategate was released. (Climategate refers to the unauthorized release of hundreds if personal emails between a number of prominent scientists who are Global Warmings proponents. They showed the high level of deceit, scientific fraud and ethical bankruptcy that they engaged in to promote moral false research to further their own personal agendas regarding Global Warming.)  The stench reached around the world.  Canadian climate sceptics were instrumental in exposing many of the weaknesses that drove these "scientists" to deny the fraud.

Of course many are still waiting for the resignation of the ex-railway engineer who heads the IPCC over Glaciergate - again hysterical claims that claimed there was credible, peer reviewed research to support the serious claim that all of the Himalayian Glaciers would melt by 2035!  It turned out it was mostly from an environmental special interest groups article - no research was actually found.  A well-regarded author cited in the chapter said he knew it was false, but no one asked him about it and he figured it was not his job to correct the supposedly "rigorous review" of the material by the well paid IPCC editors.

Then this week is Amazongate.  It turns out that one of the most widely publicised statements in the 2007 report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – a claim on which tens of billions of dollars could hang  - that climate change was putting at risk up to 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest - was not based on peer-reviewed science, as repeatedly claimed, but originated solely from anonymous propaganda published on the website of a small Brazilian environmental advocacy group. (note about Wood Hole)

How many other examples before this gravey-train gets called back to the station?


On a slightly related topic is "climate sceptic" James Delingpole observation about Wikipedia.

[it has been] ... has been hijacked and corrupted by a cabal of left-leaning political activists.

Australia shows the way

Recently there has been a bloodless coup in Australian Federal Politics - PM Kevin Rudd, faced with losing a leadership vote due to popular reversals on Climate Change and Immigration Policy stepped down in favour of his leading Deputy Julia Gillard.   It was a shockingly sudden reversal of fortunes for Rudd.

The Kyoto/Copenhagen Climate Change volte face was understandable after "Climategate" but the immigration move was puzzling.   Yet here is Melanie Phillips take on a trend that is also gaining speed in the UK, titled "Politicians finally hear the people say ‘enough’".

As for the boats of asylum-seekers, Gillard has made clear she wants to be even more effective in stopping them in order to protect ‘our sanctuary’ and ‘the Australian way’.

In Britain even more than in Australia — where at least John Howard or Tony Abbott have tackled such issues — race and culture have long been totally taboo. No debate has been possible about whether mass immigration might be a bad thing for communities or the country as a whole.

Even to question this has been to invite instant denunciation as a racist from the dominant left-wing intelligentsia, for whom anti-racism has long been their signature creed. 

So Gillard is now humming the same tune, saying she sympathises with voters’ desire for strong management of Australia’s borders, and pledging ’sustainable population’ increase with the ‘right kind of immigrant’.

A similar political convulsion is occurring in Britain. The Conservative Home Secretary, Theresa May, has promised to put a cap on immigration, a pledge that was in the Conservative manifesto but rarely mentioned during the election campaign. 

How long before the Liberals in Canada recognize this as well.

Special prosecutor consider charges against Mounties in Dziekanski Tasering

Finally, the sanitization looks like it will come to an end.   Of interest is report of survey that says "70% of Canadians support charging the officers".  I guess the other 30% worked with the RCMP.

This news follows another shocking email disclosure on June 17 that RCMP brass did not really consider the "Apology" an apology - they were merely parsing their words in the same manner Bill Clinton sliced and diced the meaning of "sex with that women".

“Even though the word ‘apology’ worries some, we are not apologizing for the actions of specific members or saying anything about specific actions. I am apologizing for the loss of her son and where the [RCMP Commissioner] says we could have done better, from my perspective, that relates to the fact we had to revise our policy and training…. Let me know if I can explain any further as it is important the membership gets the right message as to what we are trying to do [here].”

And now, we have the liberal citizens of Toronto up in arms about the tactics of the Police and RCMP during the G8/20 Summit.   They let anarchists engage in violent rampages for a full day before clamping down with characteristic enthusiasm.  I agree with Chris Selly's interpretation - did we really need to spend $1.2 bn for this mess?

Government Aggravated Tragedy

An excellent article on how Obama has created the problem he faces in the Gulf of Mexico - in this case refusing foreign expertise that may have helped contain the oil spill due to his concerns about organized labour backlash.

A large part of the reason - the Jones Act.

Of course the situation has now become much worse and it is consuming all available presidential credibility.

In addition, I saw another article that clearly describes the real problem - Government bureaucracy's infernal need to control, tax and expand from book by James C. Scott titled "Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed".  The best way to describe it is the term 
"Structural Dysfunctionalism".

Then, a court victory in Quebec that finally halts some of the totalitarian expansion of the Quebec socialist state in this article by Barabra Kay "Score one for religious freedom".

Excellent report on the Drug War in Mexico

Excellent article, here.

Grizzly Bears going extinct?

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Calgary School Board cuts - apathy among trustee's in Edmonton

What is going on in Public Education Governance?

Here is article from Calgary Herald (yesterday) that bemoans the fact they(Calgary School Board) must cut jobs.  What is wrong with that?

A couple of weeks ago Edmonton School Trustee Cathy Riley wanted to have a plebiscite to impose a special "school maintenance property tax".   Bravo - I say.   Perhaps this will lead to some better thought in design of schools.

But then today, Education Minister Dave Hancock want to appoint Trustees?  What is going on here?